Month: December 2018

By Fazal Amin Beg Introduction Wakhi is one of the Pamiri languages within the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European languages family. Although, its written tradition sounds very recent/young, the related linguists consider Wakhi as one of the old Eastern Iranian languages having over four thousand years of age so far. Indigenously, this language is never named…

Introduction Like Kh̃howar and Kashmiri, S̃hina is a Dardic language of the Indo-Iranian branches within the broader Indo-European languages family. It’s spoken mainly in the Northern Pakistan, although a sizeable number of speakers also live in North-western India and a small population of them also reportedly live in Eastern Afghanistan. It has been a lingua…

Introduction Kh̃owar can bee termed as the Persian of the Northern Pakistan. It belongs to the Dardic group within Indo-Aryan languages family and is spoken by a significant number of people mainly in the districts of Chitral and Ghizer in addition to a significant number of the community in Gilgit as well as in a…

Introduction D̃umaaki [D̃umãki] is one of the most endangered languages of Pakistan which is spoken by a few thousands of people in Gilgit-Baltistan Region and more specifically in Hunza valley . Although, this language community lives in different valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan Region, they have lost their enriched mother tongue in the face of severe social…

Introduction Burushaski is one of those languages of the world, which are termed as “language isolate.” It means that the language families of Burushaski is unknown so far and highly challenging before the international linguists who have been studying this unique languages for over decades and are unable to determine its connectivity with any main…

Introduction Belonging broadly to the Sino-Tibetan languages family, Balti language is an international language and is spoken mainly in the Northern Pakistan and India in addition to few other countries in a small population. In the Northern Pakistan, Balti language is being spoken by a significant number of the native people, particulary in Baltistan Region.…

  By Fazal Amin Beg   Gilgit-Baltistan in the Northern Pakistan is blessed not only with its beauty and enriched natural resources but rather also cherishes the old age languages representing their respective cultures dating back to thousands of years in the space of immemorial time. The more diverse valleys, the more enriched cultural resources…